Ian Chappell casts doubt over Clarke's suitability as future captain

[Bradman99]

right.recently wen i said Clarke wasnt fit for ODIs n there would be pressure' date='u said hes a certainty,now u r saying it isnt a big loss n actually good?:hmmm:if Clarkes's replacement can do well i see no reason why Clarke cant be dropped from ODIs n kept for tests only[/quote'] Yes, as the selectors will continue to choose him, he won't be dropped. He's seen as the next captain. Also, he can be good for his fielding. Personally, I'd have no problem if he were to get dropped.

[EnterTheVoid]

She now gives the media the one fingered salute. Unrelenting pack of vultures, these people are. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1025232/stressed-bingle-gives-media-the-finger

This is the thing I find hard to understand about celebs - They pose nude for the middle page of mens' magazines' date=' PETA, Theta, Beta and all the other 'green' organizations, [b']but when a nude photo of 'em gets released on the internet, they're greatly offended.

Because it was taken against her will.

[thevortex]

She now gives the media the one fingered salute. Unrelenting pack of vultures, these people are. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1025232/stressed-bingle-gives-media-the-finger Because it was taken against her will.

Perhaps a slight correction suggests itself. It may not have been taken against her will. It might have been shared against her will though. :)

[99.94]

I find this whole ordeal quite funny to be honest. As stupid as Fev is, you've just gotta love him.. Clarke is pretty whipped though, it can't help his captaincy hopes having to leave tours to be with his fiance.. WHIPPED.

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Ian Chappell casts doubt over Clarke's suitability as future captain Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell has cast doubts over Michael Clarke's suitability as a future Test captain, after he dashed back across the Tasman to be at the side of his controversy-prone fiancée in the middle of ODI series against New Zealand. More... Ian Chappell casts doubt over Clarke's suitability as future captain ANI Sydney, March 10, 2010 Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell has cast doubts over Michael Clarke's suitability as a future Test captain, after he dashed back across the Tasman to be at the side of his controversy-prone fiancée in the middle of ODI series against New Zealand. Clarke will return to New Zealand in time for Australia's two-match Test series next week, after he left the Australian squad on the eve of the third one-day international against New Zealand in Hamilton. Clarke maintained a low profile upon his arrival in Sydney, while fiancée Lara Bingle made known her feelings over the naked photo scandal with a one-fingered salute to camera crews outside the couple's Bondi home. Cricket Australia declined to comment on Clarke's hasty departure from the New Zealand tour, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Ian Chappell, the former Australian captain, expressed concern at Clarke's "stability and durability" as a future Test leader, and said the move to rush to Bingle's side mid-tour was "[not] doing him a lot of good". "The first thing you need in an Australian captain is someone who is going to be there all the time. In other words, you can't afford to have someone who gets injured a bit, like Michael does, or has other issues that occasionally need to be sorted out," he said. "I understand that situations can come along where things need to be sorted out domestically but if I was a selector, it would be in the back of my mind. "I'd be thinking, 'Well, if we have another candidate the equal to this Michael Clarke, he might be worth looking at'. Stability and durability, to me, are very important factors in an Australian captain. They might not be right at the top of the list but they're right up there," Chappell said. Clarke's departure prompted selectors to rush Tasmania's George Bailey to New Zealand for the final two limited-overs matches of the Chappell-Hadlee series.

[IKnowU]

Well reports are that he broke up with his sheila. So business back as usual.

[EnterTheVoid]

This Lara bimbo got him in trouble before. Remember this;

Last year, teammate Simon Katich grabbed him by the throat when Clarke wanted the team's victory song to be sung early so he could meet her.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricket/cricket-star-michael-clarke-poised-to-end-engagement-to-lara-bingle-after-nude-photo-scandal/story-e6frfg8o-1225838888655

[vvvslaxman]

Now that Ian chappell has opened his mouth, Congradulations Clarke on becoming future captain for number of years.

[virufan]

Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell has cast doubts over Michael Clarke's suitability as a future Test captain, after he dashed back across the Tasman to be at the side of his controversy-prone fiancée in the middle of ODI series against New Zealand. More... Ian Chappell casts doubt over Clarke's suitability as future captain ANI Sydney, March 10, 2010 Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell has cast doubts over Michael Clarke's suitability as a future Test captain, after he dashed back across the Tasman to be at the side of his controversy-prone fiancée in the middle of ODI series against New Zealand. Clarke will return to New Zealand in time for Australia's two-match Test series next week, after he left the Australian squad on the eve of the third one-day international against New Zealand in Hamilton. Clarke maintained a low profile upon his arrival in Sydney, while fiancée Lara Bingle made known her feelings over the naked photo scandal with a one-fingered salute to camera crews outside the couple's Bondi home. Cricket Australia declined to comment on Clarke's hasty departure from the New Zealand tour, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Ian Chappell, the former Australian captain, expressed concern at Clarke's "stability and durability" as a future Test leader, and said the move to rush to Bingle's side mid-tour was "[not] doing him a lot of good". "The first thing you need in an Australian captain is someone who is going to be there all the time. In other words, you can't afford to have someone who gets injured a bit, like Michael does, or has other issues that occasionally need to be sorted out," he said. "I understand that situations can come along where things need to be sorted out domestically but if I was a selector, it would be in the back of my mind. "I'd be thinking, 'Well, if we have another candidate the equal to this Michael Clarke, he might be worth looking at'. Stability and durability, to me, are very important factors in an Australian captain. They might not be right at the top of the list but they're right up there," Chappell said. Clarke's departure prompted selectors to rush Tasmania's George Bailey to New Zealand for the final two limited-overs matches of the Chappell-Hadlee series.

This Chappal guy is quick to pounce on anybody at the slightest opportunity. This poor guy Clarke is reeling under personal problems and here goes Chappal to tear him to shreds. Reallly heartless these people.

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Oz Minister backs Clarke's decision to skip NZ ODI series midway Australian vice captain Michael Clarke, who returned home in the middle of the ODI series against New Zealand due to personal problems, has got the backing of Sports Minister Kate Ellis over his decision to leave the tour midway. More... Oz Minister backs Clarke's decision to skip NZ ODI series midway March 12, 2010 Australian vice captain Michael Clarke, who returned home in the middle of the ODI series against New Zealand due to personal problems, has got the backing of Sports Minister Kate Ellis over his decision to leave the tour midway. Ellis called the recent public fuss surrounding Clarke and his fiancée Lara Bingle "really unfortunate" and backed the Australian vice captain's de cision to take personal leave from the tour, suggesting he did the "responsible thing". Clarke's decision to return to Australia sparked a national furore, with some suggesting his responsibilities lay with the team and not the soap opera engulfing his bride-to-be. Clarke's two-year relationship with Bingle has been under intense scrutiny since a topless photo of the model, taken when she was in a relationship with the AFL footballer Brendan Fevola, was made public, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Clarke was also reported to be furious after learning his fiancee had negotiated to sell the story to a women's magazine. The paper reports that Clarke and Bingle may have agreed to separate this week when Bingle was photographed without her engagement ring and a removalist van was seen outside the couple's Bondi apartment on Wednesday night. Ellis said: "We need to recognise that our role models, whether they (are) sporting heroes or the like, they are human beings and have lives at the same time." Insisting there had been too much public focus on the relationship, Ellis said she hoped "we can see Michael Clarke happy, on the cricket field, representing Australia and doing very well, and … frankly, that I can read a little less about their love life."

[achilles]

So we have the Australian people lecturing Pakistani's about how they should keep politicians out of cricket and we have John Howard (then PRIME MINISTER of Australia) publicly calling Murali a chucker and now we've got this woman trying to cover-up for her lad. Wow. Hypocrites.

[achilles]

And I don't hold in high-regard Clarke's decision to walk off a tour. Highly unprofessional!

[Bradman99]

Clarke and Bingle have split.

[Mr. Wicket]

You ****ing softcock, Clarke. You ****ing gutless, pussywhipped wimp. Grow a set of balls. There's a man who should not - EVER - captain Australia. Please give the job to a Katich, a Hussey, even a White if need be with split captaincy, but to someone who actually has some focus and ambition in terms of leading the side, and won't just **** off to his girlfriend halfway through a series. (Was it just 9 years ago that Waugh set a new bar for dedication in playing a game with a hole torn in his calf muscle, scoring a hundred on one leg and playing through serious pain just so he could lead his team through a meaningless dead rubber test?)

[achilles]

You ****ing softcock, Clarke. You ****ing gutless, pussywhipped wimp. Grow a set of balls. There's a man who should not - EVER - captain Australia. Please give the job to a Katich, a Hussey, even a White if need be with split captaincy, but to someone who actually has some focus and ambition in terms of leading the side, and won't just **** off to his girlfriend halfway through a series. (Was it just 9 years ago that Waugh set a new bar for dedication in playing a game with a hole torn in his calf muscle, scoring a hundred on one leg and playing through serious pain just so he could lead his team through a meaningless dead rubber test?)

You stole my words. And the reason I wasn't as direct as this was coz I thought u'd rush to the Aussie defense. But yeah, he's a moron. Anil Kumble played with a broken jaw and won us a test. And Graeme Smith batted with a broken hand in Australia to save his team. And here we have a dimwit taking the next flight out of an important derby series to be with his stupid girlfriend and we have a minister sermonize about how human he is? Wow :finger:

[Mr. Wicket]

You stole my words. And the reason I wasn't as direct as this was coz I thought u'd rush to the Aussie defense.

Your mindreading skills are pathetic.

[Watson87]

White or Watson should be the next T20 captain, Clarke doesn't have the heart to lead his country. If Aus are in a tense game and in the big screen they show Lara Bingle smooching Andrew Symonds, he's gonna breakdown and leave the field. Clarke is letting out the little girl that's inside him. Not a good sight.

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Cricket's wide call : GIDEON HAIGH on Clarke-Bingle episode Tim Bresnan struck early on the third day to end Tamim Iqbal’s resistance before Steven Finn grabbed his first Test wicket and hurry Bangladesh towards the follow-on in the opening Test. More... Cricket's wide call GIDEON HAIGH March 14, 2010 The Lara Bingle affair has unleashed some dubious and dated moralising. "WOMEN are very often keen followers of the game, but their excitement over a match and their sympathetic interest in the players are offset by the uneasiness and disquietude of mind they create in the team's family circle.'' Thus said Australia's cricket captain 100 years ago, Monty Noble, who did not marry until he was 40, and long retired. How far we have come - and yet not. Australia's captain, Ricky Ponting, is an exemplary husband and father. Ditto his role models in the job, Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh. But the flight last week of Ponting's presumed heir, Michael Clarke, to the side of his embattled fiancee, Lara Bingle, has revealed curious assumptions about sport, sex and celebrity held by some who should know better. Bingle has in the past fortnight suffered a cruel public humiliation, with the publication of a photograph of her showering that slunk mysteriously into the public domain via Woman's Day, whose supremely disingenuous argument was that ''it was going to come out at any point anyway''. The photograph may date from Bingle's ignominious fling with footballer and cretin Brendan Fevola three years ago. Sordid stuff - feel free to turn away. But you will have to do the turning, for the media has gone on staring with prurient, voyeuristic abandon, relying on essentially two justifications. First, Bingle has what, by the media's improvised and mutable moral standards, is a chequered past. She is a bit flash. She is a bit saucy. She once slept with a married man, Fevola. ''Villain or victim'' reads the cover of last week's New Idea, announcing another in-depth investigation. There is no question mark. The sentiment hangs there, as if suspended by its own stupidity, an echo of the rapist's excuse that ''she dressed up all sexy so she had it coming''. Second, on the advice of her outre agent Max Markson, Bingle sold an interview expressing her distress to the same magazine that had caused her woes. It was an almost masochistic reaction, like a beaten wife returning to an abusive husband; it also had the effect of inciting further coverage. By the same token, Bingle has since her teenage years been part of a celebrity milieu whose inhabitants feel compelled to confide in hundreds of thousands of readers if they burn their toast. ''My Toast Pain.'' ''Why I'm Standing By Toast.'' ''Brangelina's Toast Feud.'' When one is conditioned to a public life, public response must seem almost a reflex. Why, even yer interleckchals can't help themselves: witness, in Friday's Australian, Mandy Sayer's whimper for partner Louis Nowra, currently being kicked around for his bilious attack on Germaine Greer. And he did have it coming. In the meantime, Michael Clarke was learned to be returning to Sydney from a one-day series in New Zealand, his manager explaining that it was ''to support Lara through this tough time''. Now it was the cricket media's turn to scoff. Support? Surely Clarke should be demonstrating that he was the stuff of a future captain by ditching his fiancee immediately in favour of resuming that terribly important one-day series whose results will be forgotten next week. Former players such as Ian Chappell and Michael Slater argued that being Australian vice-captain came prior to any relationship, both speaking with the experience of first marriages that did not survive their cricket careers. The case was made most explicitly by Peter Roebuck, who saw the issue as being that Bingle is beautiful, and that ''beauty and danger have always been a potent combination''. From his Fairfax bully pulpit, Roebuck is Australia's most influential and admired cricket columnist. He was also, some years ago, treated with deep malice by the tabloid media. What he published last week, however, bordered on the tawdry gossip mongery of which he was once the victim. ''Restaurateurs complain about her manners and the poor company she keeps,'' he wrote in respect of the hapless Bingle. ''Fashionistas talk of her headstrong ways and dubious customs.'' Roebuck then cited the damage this was doing to poor, vulnerable Australian cricket, which must at all costs be protected from the … errr, well … apparently, the disapproval of restaurateurs and fashionistas. Yet, amazing to say, Australian cricket seems to have survived the corrosive influence of Clingle - to belatedly give the couple the moniker, a la Brangelina, they surely deserve. Australia has lost one match this summer; Clarke was joint winner of last year's Allan Border Medal, and second-placed in this year's. Were Bingle to parade nude down Macquarie Street, Australia would presumably be unassailable. Over to you, Max. Roebuck contrived finally to sound like Monty Noble 100 years ago, endorsing as the model of a cricket wife a kind of doting but distant pastoral carer who refrained from making ''any extra demands''. Like Elin Nordegren, perhaps. Except that she has made a few extra demands lately, such as fidelity, which may mean that she is no longer an appropriate model. Now, according to ''management'', Clingle has demerged. We don't know a fraction of the story and, I dare say, never will. But we have had a lesson or two. At times like this past week, Australian cricket becomes terribly huffy and concerned with its good name, and recycles that bollocks about the Australian captaincy being the land's highest office, more important than the prime ministership etc. Which is fine: where would sport be without a little mythology? But when that mythology comes attached to such dubious and dated moralising, it isn't Lara Bingle who is dragging cricket into disrepute.

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Cricket: Clarke runs media gauntlet with straight bat Maybe it was big Merv Hughes or the ominous warning fromAustralia's cricket team media manager Lachy Pattersonbut*either way Michael Clarke handled the mediastorm*with ease More... Clarke runs media gauntlet with ease Wednesday March 17, 2010 Source: NZPA Media Swamped: Michael Clarke of Australia Maybe it was big Merv Hughes, sunglasses on, moustache bristling, looming like a bodyguard. Or the ominous warning from Australia's cricket team media manager Lachy Patterson. "As soon as it starts getting out of control we will walk off, so please be careful with how you ask a question." Either way, with Big Merv's forearm within striking distance, and the glare that terrified opening batsmen, no one was stepping out of line. Cricketing celebrity-of-the-moment Michael Clarke ran the media gauntlet for a tick over six minutes before a gaggle of 29 reporters and photographers - including a curious New Zealand Cricket (NZC) media man wielding a video camera - and lived to tell the tale. After a seemingly hellish week for the Australian vice-captain he was chipper, with a cheery smile and a "thanks, guys" at the end. It started well for 'Pup', who returned to Wellington to prepare for Friday's first Test amid a media frenzy after his split with bikini model fiancee Lara Bingle. Reporter: "I'm Lizzie from Channel Nine, how are you?" Clarke: "I'm okay thanks Lizzie, it's obviously great to be here in New Zealand with my team." There was only one touchy question from the Australian contingent, who had staked out the team's hotel lobby and training for two days for little more than a "no comment". Reporter: "Are you still speaking to Lara?" Clarke: "I'm not going to comment on my personal life, I'm very sorry." An eager Red Badge security man, stationed at a south-easterly post opposite Big Merv, was only called into action once. A photographer strayed from the flock and encroached too far onto the hallowed Westpac Stadium turf. Security breach! "Stay over there, mate," the errant snapper was ordered. Otherwise Clarke fended off the volley of questions with his usual polish, without any headline grabbing revelations. And of course, Warney got a run. Shane Warne, tabloid veteran and drinking buddy of Clarke's on the 2005 New Zealand tour, had been in regular contact in recent days. "He's been a wonderful friend of mine for a long time and he was excited to see me back in New Zealand and wished me all the best." Clarke said his teammates and management were hugely supportive after his week-long dash to Sydney, having suddenly checked out of the team's Hamilton hotel and quit the tour to sort out his relationship. "I thought I had to go home and do what I had to do." He said it had been an "interesting" couple of weeks, and was surprised how his personal life was such big news. He also acknowledged the Basin Reserve crowd had been delivered ample fodder -- but he was braced for it. "I'm sure I'll get a little bit of stick but I don't mind that. I've copped a fair bit of sledging in my time, whether it be about stuff on the field or off the field." And then he was gone. Michael, Lachy, team manager Steve Bernard and Big Merv (here as Australian selector) strode back to training, dodging the flashbulbs. Another media storm doused. Until Clarke trots on to the Basin on Friday.

[achilles]

Pup did well in the press conferences. Lets see how well he deals with the "stick" in the match :two_thumbs_up: